Contraceptives are a lifestyle choice, they do not treat disease. Women being fertile are not sick. Does the "panel of experts" include drug industry representatives?
This post about "access" is complete bullshit. I've worked at the Air Force Research Lab since 1968 (slacked off a bit lately), and worked alongside visiting Canadian Forces officers. You people have watched too many movies about how the military works. That said, I got no idea what the real story is. And neither does the OP.
They spray just around the towers, so vegetation doesn't grow up the legs and short out the lines, which is expensive to fix. They don't need to spray under the lines.
80 square miles?? The one in Virginia has a couple hundred acre reservoir. If they built some in the highlands of HI they could get some pretty high head pressures, which stores a lot of energy, so the water volume could be smaller.
I've got 4 LED task/reading lights built the "new" way: the LED is built in, and the power converter is a wall wart that supplies a constant current (not voltage). If either craps out, I can fix it. The wall wart is probably less reliable than the LED, and easier to replace.
I'm a conservative, and I'm enthusiastic about conserving resources and my own money. I've got some 30 year old screw-in fluorescent lights (they were circular and ran on magnetic ballasts back then), sampled some CFLs and bought a lot of the ones that last forever, work outside, and turn on quickly, and have started replacing smaller lights (desk, task) with LEDs. Yesterday I built some under-cabinet LED lights out of stick-on 5M reel LEDs off eBay.
I also have some old-style incandescents in closets and such that get an hour's worth of use a year. I have a lifetime supply of those, at their present failure rate, so I don't care about the ban. But if I was a true libertarian I would be calling my congresscritter raising holy hell. Wait til the working class (and non-working class) Democrats find out that they will have to move their light bulbs when they change apartments because they're so expensive, and that GEORGE BUSH signed the law banning their old bulbs.
The new openSuSE, if they like KDE. ?ubuntu 14.04, if you can wait that long, for a long term solution. Or Mint Cinnamon, a month later (you have to upgrade now by reinstalling; safer but annoying). Cinnamon has a simple menu, which I like. Zorin is nice, familiar anyhow.
Every odd numbered Windows release is better than the preceding version. As for me, I'm not waiting for 9, I just installed openSuSE and I'm not looking back.
It would be easier, safer, and cheaper to install Zorin or Mint. The interface is familiar, no viruses to worry about, and all his peripherals will work. And if you're his tech support, less work for you.
There is hope for my grandkids; I put Bodhi Linux on an old XP laptop, along with GCompris, TuxPaint and such, and they love it. I am trying to get their school to convert to Linux, but I think you can guess the outcome of that (sigh).
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I built a lot of Heathkits using 20% resistors. And all of them worked, after some ...well, a lot of tweaking,.
She is also the Chromebook target demographic.
It's about the government telling you what to buy.
Contraceptives are a lifestyle choice, they do not treat disease. Women being fertile are not sick. Does the "panel of experts" include drug industry representatives?
Nobody said you couldn't do whatever stupid thing you want to do on your own dime.
The difference is, you want ME to pay for YOUR pills. They're in the same category as breast implants: unnecessary, and potentially harmful.
This post about "access" is complete bullshit. I've worked at the Air Force Research Lab since 1968 (slacked off a bit lately), and worked alongside visiting Canadian Forces officers. You people have watched too many movies about how the military works. That said, I got no idea what the real story is. And neither does the OP.
. ....and had no scruples, I'd be selling Orgonite. Look it up, it's hilarious. If you've studied emag, it's gonna kill you with laughter.
They spray just around the towers, so vegetation doesn't grow up the legs and short out the lines, which is expensive to fix. They don't need to spray under the lines.
This belongs on USAToday.
Why not use GNU Octave? I can accept the EULA of Matlab but not the price.
Well, actually, I object to the EULA too. It's not open source.
The people making money are the vendors of those software packages, though.
80 square miles?? The one in Virginia has a couple hundred acre reservoir. If they built some in the highlands of HI they could get some pretty high head pressures, which stores a lot of energy, so the water volume could be smaller.
...and good riddance, they are only marginally better than regular incandescents.
Right now you have #14 wire going to all your lights. One wire could handle 300,000 lumens of LEDs at 12 volts.
I've got 4 LED task/reading lights built the "new" way: the LED is built in, and the power converter is a wall wart that supplies a constant current (not voltage). If either craps out, I can fix it. The wall wart is probably less reliable than the LED, and easier to replace.
I'm a conservative, and I'm enthusiastic about conserving resources and my own money. I've got some 30 year old screw-in fluorescent lights (they were circular and ran on magnetic ballasts back then), sampled some CFLs and bought a lot of the ones that last forever, work outside, and turn on quickly, and have started replacing smaller lights (desk, task) with LEDs. Yesterday I built some under-cabinet LED lights out of stick-on 5M reel LEDs off eBay.
I also have some old-style incandescents in closets and such that get an hour's worth of use a year. I have a lifetime supply of those, at their present failure rate, so I don't care about the ban. But if I was a true libertarian I would be calling my congresscritter raising holy hell. Wait til the working class (and non-working class) Democrats find out that they will have to move their light bulbs when they change apartments because they're so expensive, and that GEORGE BUSH signed the law banning their old bulbs.
Well, #4 has some truth to it. We had a couple weeks of growing season past our usual first frost date.
The new openSuSE, if they like KDE. ?ubuntu 14.04, if you can wait that long, for a long term solution. Or Mint Cinnamon, a month later (you have to upgrade now by reinstalling; safer but annoying). Cinnamon has a simple menu, which I like. Zorin is nice, familiar anyhow.
Every odd numbered Windows release is better than the preceding version. As for me, I'm not waiting for 9, I just installed openSuSE and I'm not looking back.
You forgot the most popular, and most XP-like: Cinnamon. Not for everybody....if you like plainer, there's LXDE.
It would be easier, safer, and cheaper to install Zorin or Mint. The interface is familiar, no viruses to worry about, and all his peripherals will work. And if you're his tech support, less work for you.
Put Zorin on it, and tell them it's a "new kind of windows".
Or get them a Chromebook.
Insert Ubuntu live disk, click "install". Problem solved.
There is hope for my grandkids; I put Bodhi Linux on an old XP laptop, along with GCompris, TuxPaint and such, and they love it. I am trying to get their school to convert to Linux, but I think you can guess the outcome of that (sigh).